Don't be stupid fellas.
Don Trump is intelligent !
Donald has been a democrat in the past !
Donald has espoused ideas about a health system.
And now he has joined the tea-party, and joined the birthers !

AND HE HAS MADE the tea-party birthers look like idiots ,and made them look like extremists.

Trump's frivolous foray is the best argument yet, for immediately transforming America into a non-executive Presidency, next time & having a serious Head-of-Government, a Prime Minister, rather like Chancellor Merkel, Ph.D.Engineering, re-engineer: so that Cabinet Members argue their porttfolios from the Floor of the Chamber, not just from their home phones @ night; their counterparts in the rest of the G7, would then accord them take them more seriously & accord them appropriate weight!

Face it: America is dead. Trump just sees the White House as a piece of real estate that will become available once Russia bought back Alaska, Mexico is handed back the Southwest and the Brits take over the Northeast. Intelligent Republicans will have to look for other places. I seriously suggest Germany. You can make a huge difference there. 200 000 Republicans in let's say, Berlin, and the Socialists will have to consider emigration themselves as they will be outnumbered. There is a Republican club already. Or Baden-Württemberg. There are lots of opportunities in the East.

Destroy Trump and Palin? How? Is OBama going to order the secret service to shoot them or something? Obama can’t even make a coherent speech without the aid of a teleprompter. So what is he to do up against someone so well spoken and so much smarter than he is? Both Trump and Palin made something of themselves by themselves. What is Obama going to say? I managed to organize another protest in our community? Lets face it, write his shoes size and his IQ on a piece of paper and you can't tell which is which.

We gave him the benefit of the doubt, took him as his word. But he is not working out, so let's admit our mistake, move on, and get someone who can.

Donald Trump told Don Imus (“on Imus in the Morning” 770AM Radio in New York, Mar. 31st) that if he were President he would tell OPEC” : “If you guys try to raise the price of oil, you’re going to be in big, big trouble”
So Mr. Trump thinks there is a room in Saudi Arabia where the OPEC oil ministers meet to decide what the price of oil will be. This is a “cartoon” version of how the world works and it’s embarrassing that an otherwise intelligent man such as Mr. Trump, with his Wharton degree, would think that way.
Trump does not mention how traders on Wall Street (even now) will look at $110 oil, and buy futures to lock in a price of $120, since they are betting it will go to , say, $150, due to fears about Libya, increased Japanese demand for oil to make up for the loss of nuclear power, etc. and fear of a conflict between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Airlines are also famous for doing this, since they would rather have a fixed price that they can count on, to avoid the risk of ever higher prices.
Once upon a time (in 1986), the Saudi cost of oil production was one dollar a barrel (when in the U.S. it was $10). When oil fell to $10 in Feb. 1986, all the oil wells in Texas stopped pumping oil, since they would not make any money at $10 a barrel. (Whenever oil did this (as it did in 1998), we just “let the “free market work its majic”, rather than place a tariff on imported oil.) But now, due to a rising demand from his people for more benefits, the Saudi King needs oil at $85 to balance his budget.
Apparently, Mr. Trump feels this is too complicated for voters to understand and he offers them the “cartoon” version. He would be the first “cartoon” President.
Donald Trump seems to be the 2011 equivalent of the 1960s outfit “The John Birch Society (JBS)” (who believed that Eisenhower was a Communist). In 1970, William F. Buckley, Jr.’s National Review proclaimed that the JBS did not belong in the Conservative movement and it became marginalized.
Alas, there is no William F. Buckley, Jr. today and so anyone can say anything demagogic without any adult supervision.

Rupert Murdoch has been overheard saying ' It is a good idea to give Sarah Pallin a job in Fox - that will expose her, and her weaknesses, or strngths'
Well - He was right , and now she is a has-been.

Same goes for Don Trump - Too early in the race and he will be exposed.
sooner or later some-one will remind America that he accuses Obama of not being born in America.
That should be extremist enough for most Americans.

This whole thing is a publicity stunt to increase the ratings of his TV show (the only part of his business which is actually making money). He has filed for multiple personal and business bankrupcies over the years and according to Deutsche Bank was not worth a billion dollars in 2005 (before the real estate crash).

He is probably broke again and is hoping that this increased publicity will improve his ratings and keep him from having to return to bankrupcy court...

This whole thing is a publicity stunt to increase the ratings of his TV show (the only part of his business which is actually making money). He has filed for multiple personal and business bankrupcies over the years and according to Deutsche Bank was not worth a billion dollars in 2005 (before the real estate crash).

He is probably broke again and is hoping that this increased publicity will improve his ratings and keep him from having to return to bankrupcy court...

Saw an interview of Trump in which it was obvious to me that the main reason he wants to become a candidate is that he would be required to show his financial records and relationships. This is really the only way he can legitimately show us how clever he is and not appear to be bragging. Clearly he thinks he's the smartest one in the room.

A declining empire well into its bread and circuses dotage naturally gravitates to its clownish ringmaster set. No one in full possession of his or her faculties would dare to take the helm of the U.S.S. Titanic at this point so don't expect much.

Thales444 wrote:
"Under most circumstances I would agree that Trump is a bad candidate, however once you consider that US presidents are for the most part beholden to various interest groups it might be refreshing to have someone who has their own agenda to have a go."

You got to be kidding - the man IS an 'interest group' all by himself!

The whole issue of the birth certificate is a real pity. First America shows what a wonderful place it is by electing a black man as president. Then it shows what a nasty place it can be by trying to round up a mob (figuratively speaking) to try to kick the uppity negro out of the office. Sick to watch.

For the benefit of your younger readers, the GOP was once regarded as the safe, sane, business-oriented political party. Boring perhaps, but not given to zany experiments or loud mouthed demagogues. Dwight Eisenhower wouldn’t even be in the running in 2012: too far left.